Whiny Liberals

Whiny Liberals - You've heard the story - MoveOn.org ran a contest to generate anti-Bush ad designs from its stellar, intellectual audience.

Powerline has the goods - trashing the campaign the most eloquent way possible, by showing its results and the hypocrisy of its defenders.

Among them, liberal blogger Kos

Fresh off his successful whine-a-thon over two fringe Nazi-themed ads on MoveOn, RNC Chair Ed Gillespie has suddenly become a voice for reason, moderation, and inclusiveness. Right?

I think it's a fair bet that you'll see it from Gillespie long before you'll see it from any Democrat commentator or leader, to say nothing of the ever-less-sensible Kos.

Speaking of "whine-a-thons", this was the email I got from MoveOn.org's Eli Pariser today:

RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie launched the attack on "Fox News Sunday," and the RNC followed it with press releases and calls to reporters. The charges centered on two ads posted on the Bush in 30 Seconds website which compared President Bush's tactis with those of Adolf Hitler. Mr. Gillespie repeatedly referred to the ads as 'the MoveOn ad' or 'MoveOn's ad,' implying that we had sponsored or perhaps even commissioned the ad. And he also claimed that we might spend $7 million to run it on TV.

This is a lie. MoveOn.org hasn't sponsored such an ad, and we never would -- we regret the appearance of these ads on the Bush In 30 Seconds site. The two ads in question are from more than a thousand posted by members of the public, and they were voted on by MoveOn members through December 31st. Obviously the few hundred of you who viewed these ads agreed that they were not worthy of further broadcast or recognition, because they got low ratings. Yesterday we announced the 15 finalists -- all good, hard-hitting and fair appraisals of the Bush record, in the judgment of the members and others who rated them. The two offending ads can only be found one place now -- on the RNC website!

It's those dagnabbed Republicans, grabbing our slander before we can hide it!

Question, Mr. Pariser; how did they get on your site?

And do you - or Kos - think for a moment that if a contest on a conservative site yielded an ad design with, say, Al Gore flogging a slave, the likes of MoveOn and Kos wouldn't be baying for rhetorical blood at the very least?

Who's whining?

Hey - for some inexplicable reason, Kos seems to be quiet about the declining attacks against US troops, and the allegations of rapprochement between Israel/Libya, India/Pakistan...

Seeing a pattern here?

Kos is rapidly dropping off my list of credible left-wing sources on the blogosphere.

Posted by Mitch at January 7, 2004 06:03 AM